The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.